Jagmohan Mundhra passes away

MUMBAI: Film director Jagmohan Mundhra passed away in Mumbai on Sunday.

The 62-year-old died of peptic ulcer and was in the hospital for the last couple of days.

Mundhra was known for issue-oriented films like Bawandar and the Aishwarya Rai Bachchan-starrer Provoked.

Born in 1948 in a conservative Marwadi family, Mundhra studied engineering at IIT Mumbai and then moved to the US to do his M.Sc. But his ultimate calling was filmmaking. In 1982, he made Suraag with Sanjeev Kumar and Shabana Azmi in lead roles. This was followed up Kamla, a women-centric film which had Shabana Azmi and Deepti Naval.

A regular at FICCI, Mundhra was immensely interested in different aspects of the current-day filmmaking.

His last directorial venture was Naughty@40. He was preparing to shoot a satire, Kissa Kutte Ka. He was very keen to make a film on Congress president Sonia Gandhi.